Week 4 Assignment, Part 2: Professional Development Planning

Week 4 Assignment, Part 2: Professional Development Planning

Using the campus and district improvement plans, and any suggested technology improvements, develop professional development activities that include the following:

·         Reference analysis and lessons learned about the technology needs from the Week 3 report;

·         Addresses professional development designed to improve the gathering, analysis and use of data from a variety of sources;

·         Includes professional development to improve decision-making in the integration of technology with instructional and organizational leadership.

The need that I feel is addresses will bring the biggest benefit to our campus and our students is our campuses need to create classrooms that use technology more and have a adapted technology curriculum to meet the 21^st century learner.

            As I studied our campus and districts technology plan I saw a ton of things that if they were implemented on our campus would be a great benefit to our students and staff.  It was shocking to see that our campus and district plans encouraged the use of technology in the class however didn’t seem to provide the resources of that technology to our teachers.

            I felt that the first thing that would be need for my action plan would be technology survey that could be taken online by both teachers and students. This survey would need to address the current classroom technology being used, training in the field of technology that teachers and staff have received, new forms of technology that teachers and students would like to use in the classroom setting, and different forms of technology that student have access to and technology that they wish they had access to. By creating this survey I would have data to support a more stream lined professional development activity. I would now what things are being successful in the classroom, and what technology students have and are familiar with.

            I would feel that organizing a district staff survey would also be very helpful. This survey would strive to gather data from other campuses on the use of technology and technology training that has be successful for their students.  This would create a greater range of data along with useful information and examples from successful teachers and administrators.

I.                    Staff development training on uses of technology already available on campus.

a.      With the help of the technology coordinator, create a slid presentation and examples of currently available technology.

b.      Using survey information, have two teachers model the most popular and most successful applications of this technology (being classroom and student specific).     

II.                   Providing the results of the student survey with the staff. Showing them what technology is available to your students at home and what technology they may what to see in the classroom.

a.      Provide student sample work that has been created using this technology.

b.      Provide lesson plan examples and model these lesson plans using the student technology.

III.                 Show staff the results from the inter district survey.

a.      Using staff from other campuses model examples of new technology that is available (but not yet on our campus) , and how it is being used in their classrooms.

IV.        Have administrative leadership speak on the importance of keeping up with the world community of learners, through the use of blogs, web-sites, wiki, and other social networking tools.